Diagnostic Value of Quantitative Chest CT Scan in a Case of Spontaneous Pneumothorax

Kathryn H Melamed; Fereidoun Abtin; Igor Barjaktarevic; Christopher B Cooper

doi:10.1016/j.chest.2017.07.013

Diagnostic Value of Quantitative Chest CT Scan in a Case of Spontaneous Pneumothorax

Chest. 2017 Nov;152(5):e109-e114. doi: 10.1016/j.chest.2017.07.013.

Authors

Kathryn H Melamed¹, Fereidoun Abtin², Igor Barjaktarevic³, Christopher B Cooper³

Affiliations

¹ Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA. Electronic address: kmelamed@mednet.ucla.edu.
² Department of Radiology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.
³ Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.

PMID: 29126535
DOI: 10.1016/j.chest.2017.07.013

Abstract

An 18-year-old woman with no previous medical history presented to an outside hospital facility with acute chest pain. She had mild shortness of breath, particularly with exertion, for the prior 2 months.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Diagnosis, Differential
Female
Humans
Pneumothorax / diagnosis*
Pneumothorax / etiology
Pulmonary Emphysema / complications*
Pulmonary Emphysema / congenital
Pulmonary Emphysema / diagnosis
Radiography, Thoracic / methods*
Reproducibility of Results
Tomography, X-Ray Computed / methods*